Use Cases From Digital Humanities for Library Linked Data

Nuno FreireThe European Library \ Europeana Foundation

SWIB15 Semantic Web in Libraries ConferenceHamburg, November 2015

The European Library Open Dataset

Library Linked Data and Europeana Research:

Liberating Cultural Heritage for use in Research

http://research.europeana.eu

The challenge A SPARQL endpoint is being setup for this

dataset, but…• A viable IT hosting solution has not been found

• Dataset is too large (3,5 billion triples)• SPARQL access only viable for a subset• The subset could address a specific use case

• Ideally in Digital Humanities research…• …supporting ongoing work on research guides

– A particular historical period, geographic area, linguistic studies, etc…

Thank you

Nuno Freire nuno.freire@theeuropeanlibrary.org